Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-13
The Combination LandCo.
SPECIAL No. 4.

An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Cscte,
And dozen or more IIeathcn women whom
you know,
Each finds work ut LEucADrA, naming a
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydce
Now praises LEUcADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when 1t says
ne'er before did see
A place where the truth seems lie and a
boast.
Where else is a spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To n God when he breathcs the electrical
air?
If man has hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there, not day viii he
wait,
For LEUcADIA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and ncatcst young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
ness,
LEUCADIA we praise in Hcxameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its clated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego Counties suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUCADIA. There arc hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
csn by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skiIt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres &C
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with yerdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
OF ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the Gulf Stream" of the. Pacific,
In its southward journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude Of savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean.
AS for Santa Cruz, there is II couplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls OF bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-thc cold, ocean current continues
southwark in direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing III any month
of the ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arrOyos, so as to make the ocean practically
III.
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud fats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceansidc reached. At Oceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, Will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego Oceansidc lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for a
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and If You annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
CONSISTENT WIFI COuIlcsN. lHcH comes CurlS-
bad, and it is beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of lots
are already away up, as they ought to be.
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest site
in the world for an ocean city, and on this site
is "Leucadia"-the subject OF our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the fairest
OF all the fair daughters of the sea. She is the
Venus Amphridite of Southern California
The beach is hard and level. You can drive
along it for twelve miles. For bathing there
is no need of lines, for the surf is SO light it
would not upset baby, and there being no
lagoons near there are in consequence no
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
up to the TOP of the first ridge, then il de-
scends gently } a valley, through which the
railroad runs then there is a gradual ascent
to the top of the second ridge II mile or so
away.
which it differs from every, other seaside in
California, is in the wonderful fertility of
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie ds.
Leucadia is in process of preparation for
the market. Streets and avenues have been
cleared, graded, staked and named after
Greek deities and personages. drinking
fountain and bath house are being erected
at a white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue
Bath houses on the beach and steps and
grades thereto have been constructed. A
railroad station, after the model Of the Pan
theon, has been built and dining-room
which is conducted by skilful cook. An
underground stream of water has been
struck which will be raised by cyclone mills
to reservoir on the summit OF a high hill,
from which pipes are now being laid through
the avenues
TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC-
T0BER 26, 1887, and no lots VIII be sold
train from Los Angeles to San Diego and re-
turn, leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, October
25th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets on
this train will receive at the Office of the
Combination Land Company, in San Diego,
free excursion tickets to Leucadia and return
to San Diego. There. will be music, and
teams for driving on the beach and terraces,
and a fine lunch, all free; and then, after a
preliminary address by MR.. THOMAS FITCH,
on southern California and the Boom,"
&..sV.. IN NJ